CINDERELLA: Long Cold Winter LP 1988 Check videos “Gypsy Road”, “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)”, “The Last Mile”, “Coming Home”+ audio (all songs) + video review of the album

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CINDERELLA: Long Cold Winter LP


Their first two albums were as good as any band’s on the scene and contained one of my favorite songs of the year 1989. “Coming Home” was released as the 3rd single from Cinderella’s 2nd studio LP Long Cold Winter from 1988, following their triple platinum debut Night Songs. Although the band was making a calculated move to evolve their sound, its the combination of the minimalist, bluesy beginning of the track, and the transition into Keifer’s distinctive growling for the chorus that gives makes “Coming Home” such a special song. I want to talk about that song for a while:


This Philadelphia, USA-based band was signed Cinderella on PolyGram Records by Jon Bon Jovi recommendation after he witnessed a particularly wild Philadelphia club gig. The band AC/DC + Aerosmith style proved popular, with raucous live shows helping to make ‘Nobody Fool’ a number 13 hit, as the debut album climbed to number 3 in the US charts. Long Cold Winter established a more individual sound, as Cinderella adopted a classy blues-rock style that ideally suited Keifer throaty tones; ‘Gypsy Road’, ‘Don’t Know What You Got (Till It Gone)’ (US number 12 in September 1988) and ‘Coming Home’ continued their ascent. Long Cold Winter is the second studio album by American Glam Rock band Cinderella, released in 1988. With Long Cold Winter, Cinderella started to move away from the Glam Rock music of their previous album and into a more Blues Rock-oriented direction, akin to early 1970s Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Humble Pie, Bad Company, and Deep Purple.

The record reached No. 10 in the US and became double-platinum for shipping 2 million copies in the US by the end of the year, just as their debut album Night Songs [MOVLP1579] had done earlier. It was later certified triple platinum.

The album features four singles, which all charted in the US: “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)”, which was to be Cinderella’s highest-charting single, “The Last Mile”, “Coming Home” and “Gypsy Road”

Label: Vertigo ‎– VERH 59, Vertigo ‎– 834 612-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1988
Genre: Rock  Hard Rock, Glam
Tracklist:
A1 Bad Seamstress Blues
A2 Fallin’ Apart At The Seams
A3 Gypsy Road
A4 Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)
A5 The Last Mile
A6 Second Wind

B1 Long Cold Winter
B2 If You Don’t Like It
B3 Coming Home
B4 Fire And Ice
B5 Take Me Back


Track Listing:
1Bad Seamstress Blues / Fallin’ Apart At The Seams 2 Gypsy Road 3 Don’t Know What You Got (Till It Gone) 4 Last Mile, The 5 Second Wind 6 Long Cold Winter 7 If You Don’t Like It 8 Coming Home 9 Fire And Ice 10 Take Me Back.

5.0 out of 5 stars Don’t Know What You Got…..Till’ You Own It
Yes you can call me crazy but please keep reading. This is the greatest album of the pop music era. This cannot be called an album the damn thing is an oratorio the best collection of art since Handel immortal “”The Messiah””. How Keifer got away with this religious message on a major label is beyond me. This album puts across so much heart and soul it would make Otis Redding smile and cry. I would love to see what Keifer went through to write these songs and what the release looked like when he put them on paper. The album must be listened to from first song to last and you should probably sit down and read the lyrics as the record plays as it will tell you a story of life, love, heartache,strength,hope, and acceptance. Please forget about image when you listen even though theirs was over the top it did not effect the music like it may have with some other bands of this genre. When it comes to hairbands no one could play the blues like these guys.
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart At The Seams- Great mood swings starts out with a Robert Johnson influence and winds up hard rock.
Gypsy Road-A rock anthem, should be a classic
Don’t Know What You Got(Till It Gone)-The slow song, the hit, but aside from that it tells an honest soulful story
The Last Mile-cool riff, great lyrics,good vocal arrangements.
Second Wind-Makes a simple but necessary statement to the albums story
Long Cold Winter-A 12 bar blues in a minor key played with metal distortion.My favorite song on the record. It is my opinion that this is currently the highest evolution of the blues as the current artists rehash the same old thing. Includes the most soulful singing and guitar playing you can hear. A Keifer Masterpiece
If You Don’t Like It-Every piece of work will have parts of it you like better or worse, but the songs statement is again useful to the story
Coming Home-great guitar arrangements, great lyrics, maybe the best song on the record
Fire and Ice-I like the music and the words again need to be there
Take Me Back-The title says it all. Fun song,great lyrics and slide guitar.
This album is a must have for ANYONE. People need to hear this band and pay no mind to the bad rap. Tom Keifer is one of the most gifted and underrated songwriters of all time. Any artist throwin’ it down from their heart and soul should not be denied.

5.0 out of 5 stars Forgotten Classic
Cinderella debut featured bluesy rock which was reminiscent of AC/DC. On their follow up they up the rootsiness factor while still rocking in late 80 fashion. The result is a winning album that is an overlooked classic of 80 hard rock.
The album starts off with some harmonica and a national steel guitar while Tom Keifer sings a blues as an intro to “”Fallin’ Apart At The Seams””. It works wonderfully. It worked so that the key riff of the hard rocker is alluded to and then played on intentionally “”historic”” sounding guitar. “”Gypsy Road”” follows which is another riff rocker with a riff Keith Richards probably wishes he wrote. Following that is the excellent “”Don’t Know What You Got Till It Gone”” which is a fantastic power ballad. Probably the best thing about it though, not to detract from the song, is Tom Keifer excellent solo. Another standout rocker in “”The Last Mile”” follows. Other standout tracks include “”Long Cold Winter”” which is in the vein of Led Zeppelin “”Since I’ve Been Loving You”” with some stirring guitar and “”Coming Home”” which is a great country rock ballad. “”If You Don’t Like It”” is the kiss-off/screw you song that every good rock album needs and works on that level. “”Second Wind”” and “”Fire And Ice”” recall the band debut “”Night Songs”” with the latter being the superior track. “”Take Me Back”” rounds out the album with some kicking drums with cowbell and a great slide riff, and a rootsy upbeatness.
The thing about this and Cinderella next album (“”Heartbreak Station””) is that they started showing a way out of being pigeon holed in the “”hard rock”” scene. Cinderella were stretching the boundaries of what the hard rock and mainstream audiences would accept. At the same time though there were rockin’ out with a fury. Tom Keifer Janis Joplin/Brian Johnson voice may not be for everyone, but the guy always played a mean guitar, and here with Jeff LaBar is just a great rock CD. It been lumped in with dreck for so long. It stands up a lot better than many of the stuff that was on “”Headbanger Ball”” at the same time. And maybe one day “”Long Cold Winter”” will be acknowledged as the great rock album it is.

5.0 out of 5 stars Long Cold Winter, a warm rocking sophomore effort! Cinderella followed its debut Night Songs with Long Cold Winter, which featured some improved instrumentation, distinct songs instead of the same sound throughout, and a more blues-based song infused with their usual metal. The opening “Falling Apart/Bad Seamstress Blues,” has some classic acoustic blues before launching into metal blues in the second part, including some superior electric blues guitar. As in their first album, they put forth a sound that should’ve put Warrant, Firehouse, and Winger on alert to what metal should’ve been. The heavy rocking “Gypsy Road” is this album “Shake Me.” Strangely enough, the video for this song was released before “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It Gone),” as that song charted first. As it turns out, this was released as a single after the success of the first three singles. It peaked at #51, and I put this to the order when it was released. Why not release it as the first single as it was in the UK? Probably because of the success of pop-metal bands doing ballads; Cinderella first single (and second video) “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It Gone)” bettered its previous ballad, “Nobody Fool,” by one place, peaking at #12. It starts as a piano ballad before going full force with the guitars and synths to give it a soaring effect, of some hope left to mend what was sundered. The next single was “The Last Mile,” which falls into the metal blues category. This hard-driving song reached #36, which would’ve signaled them to hold off on singles, but they came out with yet another one, the mid-paced “Coming Home” which made it to #20. Some country inflections on the mellower parts give evidence that they just didn’t go for straight ahead metal. A definite asset to this album. As for the rest, it mostly hard-driving numbers such as “Second Wind,” that push this album on further heights than Night Songs. “If You Don’t Like It” shows a defiant stance on lifestyle a la Billy Joel “My Life” but with some attitude. “If you don’t like it, I don’t care” becomes an anthem against that elite exploitative 9-5 set. “Fire and Ice” is another song on a predatory woman, with its “shake for me ooo yea” a reminder of their first single, “Shake Me.” The title track sees them going into slow heartfelt electric blues mode, with Tom Keifer banshee-like vocals strangely not out-of-place, showing that Clapton and ZZ Top didn’t have the sole monopoly on blues-based rock. Long Cold Winter also benefits from extra drumming assistance from Cozy Powell, who took Carl Palmer place in ELP, and Denny Carmassi of Heart, as well as session percussionist Paulinho da Costa. And given that Keifer and bassist Tom Bittingham were two of three co-producers showed that this time, they were ready to break new ground. A definite improvement over Night Songs, Long Cold Winter will warm those who are 80 metal fans, whether rediscovering or discovering this for the first time.

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